hypnotherapy
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hypnotherapy (countable and uncountable, plural hypnotherapies)
- Treatment of disease by means of hypnotism.
- 1897, Lippincott's Medical Dictionary:
- Hypnotherapy, the therapeutic use of hypnotism.
- 1947, Leslie M. Lecron, Jean Bordeaux, Hypnotism Today:
- Direct persuasive suggestion under hypnosis was the type of hypnotherapy used by the old medical practitioners of hypnotism.
- 1960 November 25, The Spectator:
- Scientific training is attempted in the...two-year Hypnotherapy Centre course.
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treatment of disease through hypnotism
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